Reply to post: Re: All absolute rubbish!

It's 2016 and Windows lets crims poison your printer drivers

Doctor_Wibble
Devil

Re: All absolute rubbish!

> Many miss that there are - incredibly - some "simplified" printer drivers,

And I've seen and used them too, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of a good whinge!

On the other hand trying to convince Windows that you just want to print plain words on a plain bit of paper when for some reason printer model x is actually printer model x version b revision 12 which is incompatible with the only driver available, the one for printer model x version b revision 11 - and which doesn't have a 'just print the bastard thing' function anyway - is always a bit of a fun hobby to have. I blame the USB conspiracy because it wouldn't know otherwise.

And I'm also painfully aware of 'you get what you pay for', so I'll be getting a USB-serial adapter (because they vanished that too) so I can plug in my ancient epson-compatible dot matrix printer once I exhume it from the garage and recharge the ribbon with some WD40. Possibly also requiring use of a hammer, a circuit board, some pepper, onions, and a small aubergine.

And then copy it out by hand. If I can find the pencil sharpener.

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